Friday, July 8, 2016

Tomes of Illusion - Weapon Enchant Transmog

The new transmog system is going to allow players to collect as many gear appearances as there are for them to have. In Warlords, those of us who had an enchanting building in our garrisons with a follower could use weapon enchant illusions, changing the appearance of weapon enchants, the sort of "last piece of the puzzle" in visual customization.

But given that we're leaving our garrisons behind, what is the alternative?

The answer is that weapon enchants will also be saved under appearances. However, collecting these looks will work a little differently. You won't simply get the enchant on a soulbound weapon and have it from then on out. Instead, you'll need to collect illusions to add them to your appearance tabs.

A large number of these will be drops off of raid bosses. There are two in 7.0's raid: a Nightmare illusion that drops off Xavius (in all difficulties) and a Chronos illusion off of Chronomatic Anomaly in the Nighthold. There are also several that can be found on older bosses, like the Mark of the Shadowmoon off Ner'zhul in Shadowmoon Burial Grounds, or Flametongue off of Ragnaros in Molten Core.

Some will be available form vendors, such as Executioner, which is gotten from the Consortium in Outland at a certain reputation level.

However, I believe the majority of weapon illusions are going to be gained by having an Enchanter make (or if you have an enchanter on your account, making your own) a Tome of Illusion. There are six Tomes of Illusion to be had - one for each expansion before Legion and one for vanilla. These tomes use materials from those expansions, so you might want to start collecting now.

Here's the list!

As a note, Crystals are typically the result from disenchanting epic/purple gear from the appropriate expansion. Shards are the same, but for rare/blue gear. Dust and Essences tend to come from uncommon/green gear, and often Essences will come in Greater and Lesser varieties, typically allowing you to combine three lessers to make a greater. Likewise, elemental components in BC and Wrath can often be found as smaller items that are combined into the larger pieces.